{
  "id": "1708.01540",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2017-08-04T14:56:25.000Z",
  "updated": "2017-08-04T14:56:25.000Z",
  "title": "On the detectability of BL Lac objects by IceCube",
  "authors": [
    "C. Righi",
    "F. Tavecchio"
  ],
  "comment": "7pages, talk at the conference: Moriond 2017 (VHE Phenomena in the Universe). New version with minor corrections",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "Since 2010 IceCube observed around 50 high-energy neutrino events of cosmic origin above 60 TeV, but the astrophysical sources of these events are still unknown. We recently proposed high-energy emitting BL Lac (HBL) objects as candidate emitters of high-energy neutrinos. Assuming a direct proportionality between high-energy gamma-ray and very-high energy neutrino fluxes, we calculated the expected neutrino event number in a year for IceCube and the presently under construction Km3NeT. To give a value of the significance of a detection we considered also the background for the single sources. To this aim we derived the through-going muon rate, generated by muon neutrino including the effect of Earth absorption, the density of the Earth and the cross section $\\nu N$. Applying this calculation both to HBL sources and the atmospherical neutrino background, we can calculate the expected significance of the detection by IceCube, showing that our scenario is compatible with a no detection of HBL.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2017-08-04T14:56:25.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "bl lac objects",
      "detectability",
      "very-high energy neutrino fluxes",
      "high-energy emitting bl lac",
      "high-energy neutrino events"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 7,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}